Octavie l



No. 6l6,875.

.0. L. APTHORP.

TAG.

(Application filed Mar. 26, 1898.;

Patented Jan. 3, i899.

' NITED STATES PATENT Prion.

OOTAVIE L. APTHORP, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 616,87 5, dated January 3, 1899.

Application filed March 26, 1898. Serial No 675,3. (No model.)

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OCTAVIE L. APTHORP, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Tags, of which the followingis a specification.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view, Fig. 2 is an edge View, Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view on line 3 3 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a plan view with one of the tag-sheets removed, of the preferred form of tag embodying my invention.

The object of my invention is to produce an improvement in the class of tags commonly known as shipping or address tags; and my invention consists in the combination of a tag with a string or tape secured to the tag at a plurality of points by means of metallic fasteners in the manner or-substantially in the mode herein set forth.

In the drawings illustrating the principle of my invention and the best mode now known to me of applying that principle, 1 is a tag, of stifi paper or other suitable material, and 2 is the tag-string, of twine, tape, or the like, but preferably of twine. Tag-string 2 is secured to tag 1 at a plurality of points, one of which is near one extremity of the tag and another of which is near another extremity of the tag, by means of any suitable metallic fasteners 3. I prefer to use eyelets for this purpose, as the holes thereof enable users of the tags to tack them readily onto boxes by driving tacks or the like through the eyeletholes, from which the tacks or the like are easily removed. In practice I secure the tagstring to the tag near one corner thereof and lead the string thence to and past a diagonally opposite corner, where the string is also made fast to the tag, the end or ends of the string projecting sufficiently to permit its being tied to any desired object. This is a cheap and strong construction, and inasmuch as the string is secured to the tag at points one removed from the other a pull .on the free end of the string while the tag is held stationary or apull on the tag while the free end of the string is held stationary will not bend the tag between the points of the string attachment.

Preferably the tag proper is composed of two superimposed pieces of suitable sheet material, such as 1 and l, the string being between these sheets and the fastenings securing both sheets together. In this preferred construction, where eyelets are used as fasteners, the string is knotted at 4 tightly on the shank of the eyelet farthest from the free or projecting end of the tag-string and is also knotted at 4 on the inner side of the shank of the diagonally opposite eyelet. The purpose of this knot 4: is to abut the string on the inner side of the eyelet nearest the projecting end of the string, so as to keep the length of string between the two fasteners always equal to the length of tag-stock between the two fasteners, and thus prevent bending the tag by a pull on the tag-string when the tag is held stationary or by a pull on the tag when the projecting end of the string is held stationary.

My new tag is stronger than the ordinary tags formed with an eye reinforced with pa per, and when eyelets are used, as shown, to hold the string in place and to secure the tag-sheets 1 and 1 together the tags may be tacked in place, as above described, in such wise as to be more readily removed than heretofore without .destroying the tag. If preferred, the knots referred to may be omitted if the flanges of the eyelets are wide enough and strong enough to anchor the string securely on the tag-piece 1.

I use the term tag-string herein in its broad sense of a projecting part by means of which the string is secured to an object. The tag-strin g may be of any suitable material-- twine, tape, wire, or sheet metal, for example.

In all forms of my invention the protection or covering-piece not only conceals and protects the tag string, but gives increased strength and durability to the tag as a whole. This cover-piece may be glued on, if desired.

What I claim is- As a new article of manufacture, a shipping or like tag comprising a tag-piece and a proname to this specification, in the presence of jecting tag-string which is anchored to the two subscribing Witnesses, on this 21st day of tag at diagonally opposite points thereon by March, A. D. 1898.

eyelets; the string being knotted against the OOTAVIE L. APTI-IORP. 5 inner side of the post of that eyelet which is iVitnesses:

nearest the free ends of the tag-strings. EDWARD S. BEACH,

In testimony whereof I have signed my E. A. ALLEN. 

